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KUCHING: Second Minister of Resource Planning and Environment Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan yesterday called for stronger co-operation from the people to ensure all development projects are implemented smoothly.
He said while the government continued to bring projects to the rural areas, it was crucial for the people to give their full support and not cause problems.
“Our (government) effort to give basic amenities such as rural electrification schemes (RES), water and roads to the rural areas is not all about allocation.
“Equally important is that the people should give their support for the projects to be implemented smoothly,” Awang Tengah, who is also Public Utilities Minister, told reporters after launching an RES project for Kampung Biya Kamas, SK Kambug and Kampung Nusaraya Maras in Padawan, about 60km from here.
He told those present that it was inevitable that many projects would trespass properties and land owned by the villagers.
“To have the projects, sometimes the contractor will have to cut trees owned by the villagers, so cooperation from the people is really needed.”
Under the National Key Results Area (NKRA), he said the state had set a target that 95 per cent of the rural populace would get to enjoy round-the-clock electricity supply through either the grid system or other alternatives.
Awang Tengah estimated that some 78,000 households in various parts of the state have yet to have electricity supply.
In Mambong constituency, the government had spent RM96 million on RES and more than 5,000 households now have electricity supply since 2009.
Awang Tengah pointed out that it was quite costly to provide RES, saying that in some villages, the cost of connecting the supply to a single household could vary from as much as RM54,000 to about RM100,000.
Among those present at the launching were Assistant Minister of Public Utilities (Electricity and Telecommunications) Datuk Dr Stephen Rundi Utom, Deputy Tourism Minister and Mambong MP Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit and Deputy State Assembly Speaker Datuk Roland Sagah Wee Inn.
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